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What is your favorite super power

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What is your favorite super power
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RE: What is your favorite super power
May 2, 2011 at 12:25 am
Cinjin Cain Wrote:I'm curious what your reasoning is for this?

About 15 different paradoxes, that this implies teleportation as well, how it turns life into a game by creating a "save" feature of sorts, how hard I would hit you for demonstrating that you have the ability to go back-forward in time, etc?

You're putting a powerful tool in the hands of a person that cannot be regulated, who would fix things that they deem 'wrong' and cause other wrongs in place. Doctor Who does a decent job of time travel... because he's a fictional character. A real person would be the last thing I would see with the ability to control where they are in time.
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RE: What is your favorite super power
May 2, 2011 at 12:51 am
(May 2, 2011 at 12:25 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote:
Cinjin Cain Wrote:I'm curious what your reasoning is for this?

About 15 different paradoxes, that this implies teleportation as well, how it turns life into a game by creating a "save" feature of sorts, how hard I would hit you for demonstrating that you have the ability to go back-forward in time, etc?

You're putting a powerful tool in the hands of a person that cannot be regulated, who would fix things that they deem 'wrong' and cause other wrongs in place. Doctor Who does a decent job of time travel... because he's a fictional character. A real person would be the last thing I would see with the ability to control where they are in time.

Your rebuttal is most definitely valid - but it would seem that "my superpower" would only be horrible to you. I would not find it at all horrible.

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RE: What is your favorite super power
May 2, 2011 at 1:01 am (This post was last modified: May 2, 2011 at 1:02 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
Hyper-Intelligence.
Preferably somewhere on the order of several billion times human ability, like what I've heard would be the utmost limitation of computing power based on known physics. (Which I believe would be light-based quantum computing.)
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Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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RE: What is your favorite super power
May 2, 2011 at 12:19 pm
And hyper-intelligence is part of the reason the Creator committed suicide. Seriously, it turned him into little more than a machine by the end.
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May 2, 2011 at 10:03 pm
(May 2, 2011 at 1:01 am)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: Hyper-Intelligence.
Preferably somewhere on the order of several billion times human ability, like what I've heard would be the utmost limitation of computing power based on known physics. (Which I believe would be light-based quantum computing.)

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RE: What is your favorite super power
May 3, 2011 at 12:12 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOe0Lr9OewE&NR=1
This is my response to that.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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